my first rant
It's been a while since I updated. I guess I haven't really felt that creative urge. Whatever.
I'm feeling discouraged... again. This hasn't happened since I was at RIT and it's not as bad as when I was there but I can still feel it. Something about being around ten year olds makes me feel out of place. I thought I was supposed to be assigned to a middle school teaching placement and they stick me at Center School (grades 5-8). The Center School is run by a bunch of hippies who can't get their act together by the time school starts. They have this need to feeeeeel everything out with the kids before giving them... o I don't know... a damn schedule! So where does that leave me? I just kinda sit around and wait. Maybe I don't have the kind of chemistry with ten-year-olds that I do with both very small children (between 1 and 5 or 6) or high school and college age students. It works out well for me because I want to teach physics to 12th graders. I really hope this feeling I'm having doesn't mean teaching isn't for me. Don't get me wrong, the kids are cute as anything, but I just don't know what to do with the little buggers, what tone of voice to use with them or anything along those lines. It's a strange school and a bad fit but part of me wants to give it a chance before I go running.
I'm feeling discouraged... again. This hasn't happened since I was at RIT and it's not as bad as when I was there but I can still feel it. Something about being around ten year olds makes me feel out of place. I thought I was supposed to be assigned to a middle school teaching placement and they stick me at Center School (grades 5-8). The Center School is run by a bunch of hippies who can't get their act together by the time school starts. They have this need to feeeeeel everything out with the kids before giving them... o I don't know... a damn schedule! So where does that leave me? I just kinda sit around and wait. Maybe I don't have the kind of chemistry with ten-year-olds that I do with both very small children (between 1 and 5 or 6) or high school and college age students. It works out well for me because I want to teach physics to 12th graders. I really hope this feeling I'm having doesn't mean teaching isn't for me. Don't get me wrong, the kids are cute as anything, but I just don't know what to do with the little buggers, what tone of voice to use with them or anything along those lines. It's a strange school and a bad fit but part of me wants to give it a chance before I go running.